| The Literary Guide and Companion to Northern England Contributor(s): Cooper, Robert M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821410962 ISBN-13: 9780821410967 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Travel | Europe - Great Britain |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 94021981 |
| Lexile Measure: 1220 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.54" W x 8.59" (1.18 lbs) 398 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The Literary Guide and Companion to Northern England" is the third and final guide in Cooper s light-hearted and informative travel collection. As Cooper explains in the preface to the first volume: This book was written for the person who unabashedly loves travel, loves England, and loves English literature. In short, for somebody remarkably like the person I was when I began to plan my first trip to Britain and looked for just such a book. Cooper s writing project grew with his enthusiasm for his task. Soon there were several more trips to England, more months at the British Museum, and not one book manuscript, but three. Like other Cooper books, this guide to northern England is wonderfully helpful to the visitor, rich in anecdotal detail, and cast with Britain s finest literary figures in this case, Johnson, Boswell, Lord Byron, D.H. Lawrence, the Bronte sisters, Tennyson, Shelley, Wordsworth. There are road maps for the motorist, walking tours of towns of particular interest, and clear directions for getting from one place to another scenes of courtships, weddings, meetings (chance or planned) that made their mark on our literary heritage." |